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spleen

[spleen] / splin /


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Spleen Actors Guild: Emoting our guts out since 1933.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2020

In 2013, I read an investigative article in Mexico City’s Spleen!

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2016

Spleen and scorn for les Americains, who had been fools enough to make M. Balieff rich, were explicitly on his lips in Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

Spleen boiled up bitterest around a green-topped table in one of the small private committee rooms of the World Monetary and Economic Conference.

From Time Magazine Archive

That the Belly of this Nobleman being opened, the Omentum or Net was found lean and small: his Liver very big; the Spleen big also, filled with a black and thick humour.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry




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